Mini Pizzas...

I've decided to try making mini pizzas and they were just perfect as appetizers for a little dinner we had with some friends. In fact I didn't use pizza / bread dough but instead a pate brisée - shortcrust pastry. I made some tomato sauce that we call rougaille in Mauritius. Used a glass to make nice round mini pizzas, spread some tomato sauce, fried onion, sardines-pilchard and grated cheese.
One thing about sardines is that since I'm a child I've always loved eating sardines - usually with piment confi - small pickled chili! So simple and yet delicious!!!! Only problem as I was a kid is that I didn't know how to open the cans - at the time we needed a can opener and that was too hard for me... always had to rely on my mum to open my sardines can!

Farata and vegetables...

It was Mauritian food this weekend. We were only three persons eating, so I made it simple. I cooked tuna rougaille, giraumon - pumpkin puree and Faratas.

Here's how I cook the Mauritian Rougaille which is very simple - I'm no big cook!

Ingredients: Tomatoes, onion, oil, ginger, garlic, salt, pepper, chili, coriander

1. Cut nice ripe tomatoes and shake the seeds out. Then crush them - I do it with a small mixer.
2. Heat oil in a saucepan, pour in finely slided onions, after 1 or 2 minutes add crushed ginger and garlic.
3. When the onions look translucent, add tomatoes and chili (fresh or dry). Cover and let it cook.
4. Maybe add a little water if it's too compact. When tomatoes look cooked, come 10 minutes later, add canned tuna. Cook some 5 more minutes.
5. Add salt and pepper.
6. Before serving add chiseled coriander.

We just fill our farata / roti with the tomato rougaille and giraumon pumkin puree and enjoy!